I've got two brothers one older and one younger, neither one hunts, older one fishes a little, younger one could care less about anything outdoors. My dad deer hunted when my Uncle owned a ranch two miles south of Laytonville Calif. Dad went a couple of times at Lassen and up by Medicine lake, but when my Uncle sold the ranch Dad never went again.
Few years later we moved to Iowa (CULTURE SHOCK) I was 16 and every thing I loved was gone. No deer, mountains, trout , salmon, weather, clear water lakes, public land, etc, etc, etc,.
Learned to love bird hunting because that's all there was. As soon as I started working I took my vacations to get back out west to hunt and fish.
Now Iowa has a great deer herd and better hunting than a lot of places out west but scenery, weather and cold water fisheries are about nil.
67 and still crazy about hunting.